CHAPTER LXXX.

_Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the god who giveth Light to
the Darkness._


It is I who complete the vesture of Nu, the Light which shineth before
him, lighting up the darkness. I unite with the two brother-gods who are
upon me through the mighty Words of Power of my mouth. I raise up the
fallen one who cometh after me. I fall along with him in the vale of
Abydos when I go to rest.

I have seized upon Hu from the place in which I found him. And I have
lifted off the darkness through my power. I have rescued the Eye from
its eclipse against the coming of the Fifteenth day, and balanced Sutu
in the mansions above, against the Great one who is with him.

I have equipped Thoth [with light] in the house of the Moon.

I seize upon the Crown. Maāt is upon me, and the Emerald and the Crystal
of her months.

This field of mine is of Azure in the festival thereof.

I lighten up the darkness and overthrow the devouring monsters.(1.)

Those who are in their own darkness worship me, and they rise up to me,
covering their faces, who mourn and are prostrate: look ye therefore
upon me.

I am the Craftsman(2.) of Nu, but I come not up in order that you should
hear of this.

I am the Craftsman of Nu, who lighteneth the darkness, and I have come
to dissipate the darkness, and that light should be.

NOTES.

1. _Devouring monsters_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂.

2. The later recensions have ⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ _wife_. The older
papyri omit the feminine ending, which is inconsistent with the rest of
the chapter. I understand ⁂ or ⁂⁂, in the sense of artist,
craftsman.

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